Day Six:
Jesus to the soul: You are sleepless and agitated; you want to judge everything, direct everything and see to everything. And you surrender to human strength, or worse—to men themselves, trusting in their intervention; this is what hinders my words and my views. Oh, how much I wish from you this surrender, to help you; and how I suffer when I see you so agitated! Satan tries to do exactly this: to agitate you and to remove you from my protection and to throw you into the jaws of human initiative and self-dependency. Stop worrying because of what you see; stop trusting the world to bring you peace. The world will never bring you peace. I am the only one who can give you peace. Even if I love you through human channels of my love and mercy, trust only in me, rest only in me, and surrender to me in everything.
Repeat three times: “Jesus, I surrender myself to you. I trust you to take care of everything.”
Prayer:
Loving Father, I surrender to you today with all my heart and soul. Please come into my heart in a deeper way. I say yes to you today. I open all the secret places of my heart to you and say, “Come, Jesus.” Jesus, you are the Lord of my whole life. I believe in you and receive you as my Lord and Savior. I hold nothing back from you. Holy Spirit, bring me into deeper conversion to the person of Jesus Christ. I surrender all to you: my health, my family, my sexuality, my resources, my occupation, my skills, my relationships, my time management, my successes, and my failures. I release these things and let them go. I surrender my understanding of how things ought to be, my choice, and my will. I surrender to you the promises I have kept and the promises I have failed to keep. I surrender my weaknesses and my strengths to you. I surrender my emotions, my fears, and my insecurities.
Holy Spirit, inspire my mind right now with whatever else I need to surrender.
(prayerful silence)
I especially surrender this to you.
Lord, I surrender my entire life to you – the past, present, and the future. In sickness and in health, in life and death, I belong to you.
Take, Lord, and receive all my freedom, my memory, my intellect, and my will. You have given me all that I have and I return everything now to you. Dispose of me according to your will. Give me only your love and grace, for with this I am rich enough and have no more to ask. Amen
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